On Aug 21, 2010, at 16:44, john gilmore wrote:
> The notion that "customers" cannot reasonably be deprived of literals
> suggests that what is in question is some fill-in-the-blanks situation. Such
> problems can be dealt with under the hood (bonnet), whether they be
> screen-input or macro keyword-parameter ones: query and note assembled
> lengths that are not multiples of two bytes and provide a properly placed,
> immediately following literal pool entry that makes up the difference.
> (Avoid reuse of the same one-byte literal: literal pools are purged.)
>
This is a joke, right? How would the programmer pose such a
"query"? Is there an operation to place an entry in the literal
pool, other than coding an instruction to reference it and ORGing
back over it?
Hmmm...
* The first segment contains all literal constants whose
assembled lengths are a multiple of 16.
(loc. cit.)
So, =0C'a' goes in that segment, since 0 is a multiple of 16.
-- gil
